Renaissance · Southeast Asia · War

1623

Amboyna Massacre

1623

Dutch VOC officials on the spice island of Amboyna arrested ten English factors, a Portuguese, and several Japanese on charges of conspiring to seize the fort. Under torture the accused confessed and were beheaded. The atrocity poisoned Anglo-Dutch relations for a generation and pushed English merchants toward India, where they would eventually build an empire far larger than the Dutch ever managed.

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Before and after in Southeast Asia

Before: May 1621: Banda Islands Massacre
After: January 14, 1641: Dutch Capture Malacca

Before and after in War

Before: 1622: Siege of Bergen-op-Zoom
After: 1627: Siege of La Rochelle Begins

Era

Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Amboyna massacre